Sunday, August 8, 2010

My long-time internet friends have seen this for at least ten years. It's worth repeating from time to time.

1. Remember where you came from.

2. Don’t do something once that you don’t expect to do forever. (There’s no such thing as just this once.--As in, letting the 2-year-old sleep in your bed.---As in, caving in to the church-lady.----As in, trying something freaky!!>>OOPS!!)

3. Don’t put your business in the street. (Catfights do nothing for your image.)

4. Don’t settle for less than being adored.

5. Leave with the one who brought you. (When my big brother told me this one, he meant “the party,” but it applies just as well to life.)

6. Your ancestors didn’t survive the Middle-Passage for you to go out and mess up. (When I used to say this to my kids, it always came out wrong, "Your ancestors didn’t die in the Middle-Passage for you to go out and mess up").

7. Don’t wait for life to happen to you. (The door won’t open if you don’t knock, or have the key.)

About Me

Sarah Gordon Weathersby is the youngest of seven siblings, and the first to migrate back to the South after living in DC, New Jersey and New York. She is a retired Information Technology professional who lives in Raleigh with her husband, and their imaginary dog, Dusty. Sarah is the author of a memoir, Motherless Child - stories from a life, and publisher of a family saga, The Gordons of Tallahassee, written by her sister LaVerne Gordon Goodridge. Tell Them I Died is her first work of fiction.